Checked cameras today and had a least 5 different days of buck fights.

looks like your dates are off on the last few.
but i have a couple fighting about 2 weeks ago as well in southern indiana. just hope they don't get hurt. I like to look forward to pretty antlers next year!

and the first two pictures the buck to the left and then the buck on the back side looks like he will be a bruiser next year!

Looks more like sparring to me. I wouldn't say they were actually "fighting". I think bucks often stand around and spar with other bucks because that's what they do. They have to show their dominance and remind each other who's in charge. When they are fighting all **** breaks loose and they are pushing each other around and trying to kill each other...

Cool, nice bucks and pictures.

ive got a trail cam pic of 2 buck sparring on Feb. 12, 2013, believe it or not.

Fighting is fighting...........and sparring is sparring. There is a difference, and VERY little fighting is happening after December "25ish". Most of the pics guys are getting late in the year is over food/bait for camera pics. The pics may look like fighting.........but the videos tell the truth, they are just sparring around the food. Been trail caming with video mode now for 5 years.......never have seen a "fight" from the bucks on the cams with litterally 10,000-15,000 videos during the months of Jan.-March........Sparring yes, Fighting no.

Has a fight over food with bucks happened somewhere in the world after December 25"ish"......you bet. Common Occurance??......not even. They will fight over food more often in the summer....but it is usually a "hoof battle".

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Does this time of year (Jan-March) are a different story........they are bickering constantly over food, slapping yearlings in the head and back with their hooves, and rearing up on their hind legs battling briefly other adult does. They are FAR worse for fighting this time of year than the bucks.

My two bucks sparring on Feb. 12 were over a scrape. I left the camera over the scrape out of curiousity to see how long bucks would keep showing up at the scrape. It was one of those big 6 foot scrapes.